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From the Field

Montreal’s Alleyways: A Laboratory for Democratic Life

Joëlle Zask & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 February 2021

The participation of a city’s inhabitants in democratic life begins with forms of everyday sociability and commitment...

Interviews

15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil - 9 February 2021

Beginning in 2006 with pioneering work on responses to the SARS crisis in global cities (and in particular Toronto,...

From the Field

The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection

Emily Reid - 2 February 2021

Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....

Debates

Aéroports de Paris: A Strategic Lever for the French State?

Nathalie Roseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2021

Following growing controversy surrounding the French government’s plans to privatize the Aéroports de Paris (ADP)...

From the Field

Electoral Organizing During a Pandemic: Lessons from Wisconsin

Aaron Shapiro - 12 January 2021

The global Covid‑19 pandemic has radically altered social and political practices. Aaron Shapiro reflects on the...

From the Field

Manifested Stories

Rebecca Blythe Pryor - 5 January 2021

Rebecca Pryor traces the history of the revitalization of the Bronx River, illustrating an alternative narrative to...

From the Field

Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Jamie Longazel - 22 December 2020

Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...

Reviews

“Land Is the New Sugar”: A Review of Sai Balakrishnan’s Shareholder Cities

Thomas Crowley - 15 December 2020

Shareholder Cities argues that India’s urban corridors are driven by complex negotiations, transformations, and power...

From the Field

Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor

Nora Komposch - 8 December 2020

Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups. However,...

From the Field

The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform

Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 December 2020

In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020

Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...

From the Field

Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment

Llerena Guiu Searle - 27 November 2020

How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...

From the Field

Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State

Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber - 24 November 2020

Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling concessions...

Reviews

Institutional Readings on Zoning

Jamaal Green - 20 November 2020

A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...

From the Field

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

Valerie E. Stahl - 10 November 2020

The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...

Interviews

Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina

Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga - 2 November 2020

Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...

Interviews

Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño

Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden - 27 October 2020

Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...

Reviews

Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue

Margaret Cowell - 13 October 2020

In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate...

Essays

The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm

Lauren Everett - 6 October 2020

In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...

From the Field

Photographing Prison

Andrea Eichenberger & Carole Gayet-Viaud & Valérie Icard & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 October 2020

The photographs presented here were taken by Andrea Eichenberger at the former men’s and women’s prison in Beauvais,...

From the Field

Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts

Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2020

What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...

Essays

Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities

Renee Tapp - 22 September 2020

Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on market-rate...

Debates

When Revolution Reinvents Public Space in Beirut

Ines Lakrouf & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2020

In the fall of 2019, peaceful protesters in Lebanon were demanding an end to corruption and calling for a movement of...

Essays

Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

Janina L. Selzer - 15 September 2020

A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While politicians...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2020

The Editorial Board - 20 July 2020

The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday,...

Essays

Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development

Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers - 10 July 2020

Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...

Essays

The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?

Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2020

The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...

Essays

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel - 30 June 2020

Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing as...

Interviews

In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections

Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat - 26 June 2020

Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...

Essays

Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai - 19 June 2020

Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...

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